Brrrrr, we’re stumbling frostily into the depths of winter here at Norman Towers Mk II as I write this latest letter from the musical underground, huddled around our tiny space heaters to stave off the frost. Thankfully, however, you guys are keeping us busy running about the place, finding your records, packing your orders, and of course churning out endless reviews of as many new titles as we can find the time to listen to.

If you haven’t yet checked out our Top 50 Albums of 2012 feature, you might want to take a look at that and see if there’s anything you’ve missed in what has been another bumper year for great records here at Norman. Not only that, but every day from now until December 21 we’ll be knocking 12% off two randomly selected titles from our list for one day only, so if you keep your eyes peeled you might be able to grab that bargain you’ve been waiting for.

It’s been something of a singles-heavy week this week, but that’s not to say that we’ve not had our fair share of great albums through the door, the most immediately obvious of which is the brand new epic from the legendary Scott Walker, with more than an hour of his ominous, claustrophobic minimal darkpop for you to digest. Besides that, sound sculptor Talvihorros follows up his excellent ‘Descent Into Delta’ with a newie for Denovali, Nils Frahm has a lovely sad little mini-album of pieces he wrote nine-fingered on a forced holiday after breaking his thumb, Taylor Deupree has some relaxing driftiness, the excellent new Brian Eno has finally arrived on vinyl (as has the latest from Darren Hayman & The Long Parliament), and if that’s not enough ambience for you then you could always try Celer’s newest offering too.

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